Example sentences for: currencies

How can you use “currencies” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The piece says U.S. currency is up against most European currencies and down against the yen, and that both developments are good news for the U.S: "For the Clinton administration, led by Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, a slumping mark is much less worrisome than a slumping yen would have been, several economists said Monday."

  • The new euro, based on nine different currencies, could wreak havoc with financial computing.

  • But instead of just doing it, European nations agreed to a seven-year transition period during which they would be required to meet a complex set of criteria--mainly to reduce their budget deficits while keeping their currencies strong.

  • U.S. multinationals have been feeling the sting of the strong dollar for some time now, and the continued weakening of Asian currencies will continue to hurt their profit margins.

  • I often run into people who assert confidently that massive speculative attacks on currencies like the ones on the British pound in 1992, the Mexican peso in 1994-1995, and the Thai baht in 1997, prove that we are in a new world in which computerized trading, satellite hookups, and all that mean that old economic rules, and conventional economic theory, no longer apply.


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